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Home Front: Politix
Former Ukraine Prosecutor Shokin: Joe Biden "Outraged We Seized Burisma Assets", Could No Longer Pay His Son…
2019-12-09
[ConservativeTreehouse] Rudy Giuliani traveled to Ukraine with OAN investigative journalist Chanel Rion. The U.S. media are going absolutely bananas after finding out Giuliani is now gathering even more information about Joe and Hunter Biden’s corrupt endeavors within Ukraine.

In this interview former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin spoke to OAN about Joe Biden’s direct role in getting his office to stop investigating his son Hunter. The problem for Joe Biden was when Shokin seized all of Burisma’s assets the Ukranian gas company could no longer pay his son Hunter Biden. So the vice president demanded Shokin be removed.

When you combine this interview with the damning public statements delivered by the Ukraine prosecutor that replaced Shokin, Yuriy Lutsenko, things really get troublesome for Joe Biden, the Obama administration and Adam Schiff.

Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko stated that after he replaced Shokin he was visited by U.S. State Dept. official George Kent and Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch; they provided a list of corruption cases the Ukraine government was not permitted to follow.

Prosecutor Lutsenko dropping specific corruption cases was critical because that allowed/enabled a process of laundering money back to U.S. officials.

The potential for this background story to become part of a larger impeachment discovery is what has the U.S. media going bananas against Rudy Giuliani.

Senator Lindsey Graham is directly connected to the group of U.S. politicians who were participating in the influence network within Ukraine. One of the downstream consequences of Rudy Giuliani investigating the Ukraine corruption and money laundering operation to U.S. officials is that it ends up catching Senator Graham.

Hence, earlier today Senator Graham said he would not permit Senate impeachment testimony that touched on this corrupt Ukraine aspect.

In essence Senator Graham is fearful that too much inquiry into what took place with Ukraine from 2014 through 2016 will expose his own participation and effort along with former Ambassador Marie Yovanovich.
Posted by:Snusotle the Lesser4227

#5  With all respect but this didn't happen.

An important point, European Conservative. Thank you for pointing it out.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-12-09 23:33  

#4  "when Shokin seized all of Burisma’s assets the Ukranian gas company"

With all respect but this didn't happen.
Posted by: European Conservative   2019-12-09 22:51  

#3  Appreciate the way Graham has cooperated with Trump since the election but never forget how closely allied with John McCain he was before the election. I'd like to believe he was not involved in Ukrainian money laundering but you never know.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-12-09 14:09  

#2  Ashes, ashes, they all fall ... down
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-09 08:13  

#1  Ukraine corruption is the essence of the entire Ukraine involvement in U.S. politics. Let it come into the testimony. Too many politicians/Deepstaters are trying to keep their boots out of the muck by silencing testimony. See Schiff and Nadler.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-12-09 08:08  

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